GOP presidential candidates are
taking the competition to Arizona,
which is emerging as a key player in
the Republican race.
Arizona, along with Michigan,
will hold its presidential primary on
Feb. 28. The state’s election will precede 10 other state primaries, which
fall on March 6, or “Super Tuesday.”
“Like South Carolina and Florida
have built momentum for certain

Volunteers
reflect on
leaving
Honduras

candidates, Arizona will add to
that for whoever wins our primary,
and I think that’s going to be a little
more important than if we were in
the mix of a dozen or 20 states, or
whatever it is, on Super Tuesday,”
said Arizona House Majority Leader Steve Court.
The spotlight has been cast upon
Arizona for a few reasons this election
season. The state’s primary is earlier
than it has been in the past, meaning
it will receive more media attention
and help set the tone for subsequent

elections, according to Barbara Norrander, a professor in the School of
Government and Public Policy.
While Arizona does share its primary with Michigan, the GOP candidates will do little campaigning there
because it is Mitt Romney’s home
state. Romney’s win in Michigan is
inevitable, so it would be pointless for
other candidates to campaign in that
state, according to Norrander.
Arizona is a winner-take-all state
as well, meaning that the victor of the
primary will claim all of the state’s

delegates to the Republican National
Convention. Previously, the winner
received 58 delegates from Arizona,
but this year, that number has been
sliced in half due to the state’s decision to move its primary to Feb. 28.
“The way it’s happening lately, it
(the number of delegates) is kind of
more of a formality. So I think having Arizona be more of a player in the
primary is probably more important
than the delegates,” Court said.
The primary also coincides with
the only GOP presidential debate

during the entire month of February, which will take place on Feb. 22
at the Mesa Arts Center in Mesa, Ariz.
As the debate and the primary draw
near, Court said he anticipates the
GOP candidates will start to make
more appearances in Arizona and the
state will see more advertisements.
In late January, Mitt Romney and
Newt Gingrich were tied at 32 percent support from Arizona GOP voters, according to a poll by American

REPUBLICANS, 2

LINING UP
For some students,
study benefits of cocaine
outweight risk of addiction

By Brittny Mejia
DAILY WILDCAT

In December, the Peace Corps announced it has temporarily suspended volunteer operations in Honduras
while it conducts a review of the safety
and security environment, according
to a Peace Corps press release.
UA Peace Corps volunteers who
were sent to Honduras before the
governmental decision to withdrawal
said they understand, but also said
that it is unfortunate for both volunteers and Hondurans.
Gabriel Sidman, a natural resources graduate student, spent about two
years in Honduras living in a small rural town located on top of a mountain.
There he sold organic coffee, helped
a women’s artisan group and taught
ecotourism.
“I think pulling out of Honduras
will have an impact, in the sense that
there will be a lot of smaller communities that don’t have as much aid,”
Sidman said. “There will be less options for Hondurans, in terms of if
they want to get a project done, where
do they go?”
Although most people were welcoming and hospitable, there was a
need to assume some people had bad
intentions, Sidman said. Once, while
traveling on a bus, Sidman was almost
robbed. Another time, a murder occurred in a public place in his town.
“Sometimes things can happen
where you get involved indirectly —
you’re in the wrong place at the wrong
time,” Sidman added. “It’s not something that makes you feel unsafe, but
it does happen rarely.”
Despite these incidents, Sidman
said that people should not view
Honduras as a dangerous and violent

n his bedroom, John pours a dime-sized amount
of cocaine from a small plastic bag onto his desk.
He scrapes it across the desktop, then chops it
up with his CatCard — it sounds like he could be
chopping vegetables. He then takes the unscrewed
bottom half of a ballpoint pen and leans over. The light
of the computer screen casts a shadow over his face.
He plugs one nostril, inhales through the pen as he
moves his head swiftly to the right, then tilts it back as
if he has a nosebleed. After he takes a few extra sniffs,
he leans away from the desk and smiles with content.
ADDICTION, 2

Noam Chomsky, a world-renowned intellectual who many
consider to be the founder of modern linguistics, spoke in Centennial
Hall on Wednesday about his views
on higher education.
Although this was Chomsky’s
first visit to the UA, he has a long
lasting connection to the university. The UA has an “unusually large
number of people” who have either been a student or department
fellow of Chomsky’s, said Thomas
Bever, a regents’ professor of linguistics.
“Imagine that we had Einstein
or Newton come and speak. In the
world of linguistics and cognitive
science, Chomsky is like Newton or
Einstein for physics,” said Massimo
Piattelli-Palmarini, a professor of
linguistics who has collaborated
with Chomsky for many years.
Thousands of people lined up to
hear Chomsky speak. Those who
were unable to get into Centennial

like this.”
Chomsky was introduced as the
most cited living author and third
most cited individual in the world,
behind Plato and Sigmund Freud.
At the start of the lecture, Chomsky addressed the question, “Who
is education for?”
“For a long time there was a
thought that education is just for the
upper elite, they are the ones who
should make decisions,” Chomsky
said, adding that education should
be accessible to everyone.
Chomsky also criticized instructional teaching, in which students
simply memorize information.
“The early joy of discovery is
ruined by memorizing the facts,”
KEITH HICKMAN-PERFETTI / DAILY WILDCAT
Chomsky said. “I remember when
Noam Chomsky, who has been described as the father of modern linguistics,
I was a 16-year-old freshman at the
speaks at Centennial Hall on Wednesday. Chomsky criticized instructional teachUniversity of Pennsylvania, I had to
ing and the lack of the “enlightenment ideal” in higher education.
take a general chemistry class that
Hall were taken to the Social speak.
was exceptionally boring. So I never
“This man is one of the premier went to class, just memorized the
Sciences building to see a recording
intellects of our day,” he said. “It’s book,” Chomsky said he received
of the event.
David Blechman, a political sci- important to be on the forefront of an A in the class.
ence senior, waited in line for more intellectual thought, especially bethan four hours to hear Chomsky ing in an academic environment
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ADDICTION
from page 1

John, whose name has been
changed by request, began using
cocaine two years ago with some
friends. He’s also a B-average student in the Eller College of Management, works 15 to 20 hours a
week and generally goes through
an eighth, or 3 1/2 grams, of cocaine in about two weeks.
A survey by Campus Health Service of 2,479 students found that,
in the past 30 days, 2.5 percent of
those students had used cocaine.
In the past year, 6.6 percent of
respondents used cocaine. The
sample of students surveyed was
random and varying, and these
statistics provide an accurate description of overall cocaine use
even though it did not sample all

UA students, according to Lynn
Reyes, an alcohol and other drug
prevention specialist at Campus
Health.
From Jan. 30, 2011, to Jan. 30,
2012, there were 361 reported
drug-related calls around the university, according to University
of Arizona Police Department records. Because of how the UAPD
records are kept, it is impossible
to know how many of those calls
were cocaine-related.
Jake Fitzgerald, a studio art junior, said he uses cocaine on a
regular basis as well.
“I use cocaine whenever it is
available, but I try not to pay for it,”
Fitzgerald said. “It keeps me in line
with not getting addicted.”
Fitzgerald said he uses the drug
one to two times a week. If someone offers him cocaine, he doesn’t
refuse it, he said.

News • Thursday, February 9, 2012

“

I find it (cocaine) works
better than coffee. My
grades don’t lie.

“

­— John

“It’s a fun drug,” Fitzgerald said.
“All drugs can be used recreationally and responsibly in moderation, but outside of moderation,
your life just goes down the toilet.”
Although John said he uses it to
party, he also relies on cocaine to
get through work and classes. During finals week, his use increases.
“When finals come around I’ll
do it every day,” he said. “I know
studies say it’s not good to study
on, but I say that’s bullshit.”

Keith Boesen, the managing director at the Arizona Poison and
Drug Information Center in the
College of Pharmacy, said cocaine
can be used to help individuals focus in similar ways that Adderall
does, but neither should be used
recreationally, Boesen said.
The problem, Boesen said, is
that cocaine affects the brain and
the body so much that it is not
worth using for the sole purpose
of studying or focusing on a singular task. It is not uncommon for
people to use it in the same way as
caffeine, Boesen said.
“I find it (cocaine) works better
than coffee,” John said. “My grades
don’t lie.”
Along with working 15 to 20
hours a week at his job while going
to school full-time, John received
one A and three B’s last semester.
“I’ve only had a couple of

Protesters use tactic
of ‘glitter bombing’

REpublicans
from page 1

Research Group Inc. However, after
Rick Santorum’s win in Colorado
Tuesday, it is unclear who will take
Arizona, Court said.
“We don’t know how long the
campaign is going to last,” Norrander said. “You can’t predict
when that dividing line is going to
happen.”
For Lauren Bouton, a political
science senior and the president
of the College Republicans, the
candidates’ political opinions are
essentially the same. It is character

Mcclatchy tribune

CHICAGO — Each of the four remaining contenders for
the Republican presidential nomination has sparkled at
one point or another during the campaign. We’re talking,
of course, about “glitter bombing.”
That is the protesters’ tactic of flinging glitter at candidates and other political figures who oppose their cause,
often same-sex marriage.
Nick Espinosa, a gay rights activist and a member of
both the protest group Occupy Minneapolis and another
called the Glitterati, is credited with launching the glitterbombing phenomenon last spring with a sparkle strike
at presidential candidate and former U.S. House Speaker
Newt Gingrich during a book signing in Minneapolis.
“What I have tried to do with creative forms of protest like
glittering is to capture people’s imagination and tap into a
cultural point of reference with a piece of political theater,”
Espinosa wrote in a piece last fall for The Huffington Post,
in which he boasted of the glitter attack on Gingrich.
“The strength of glitter is that humor is an incredibly
powerful tool for communicating a message — even a
deadly serious one.”
The glitter bombings, labeled assaults by some, have led
to arrests in some cases and seem to have become more
common of late:
Rick Santorum was glitter-bombed by a protester in
Blaine, Minn., on Tuesday, the same day he swept caucuses and a primary in three states. This was at least the
fourth glittery encounter for Santorum, following similar
events last month in South Carolina and Florida, and Friday in Missouri.
Mitt Romney, the presumed GOP front-runner defeated
by Santorum in Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri, was
nearly glittered Tuesday night at an event in Denver, but
the tiny projectiles fell short. Romney wasn’t so lucky Feb.
1, though, when glitter was fired at him as he took the stage
at a campaign event in Eagan, Minn. Quick on his feet,
Romney declared it “confetti,” thrown in celebration of his
win a day earlier in the Florida primary. On Twitter, Espinosa took credit as the “glitterer.”
Fellow Republican presidential hopeful and U.S. Rep.
Ron Paul was showered by the glimmering bits on Monday, not by Espinosa or by a glitter-bomber calling for gay
rights, but rather by a protester demanding equal access to
housing and health care.
Among the other reported glitter victims: former GOP

Peace Corps
from page 1

country. While living there, he said
he felt like a community member
and only once out of the countless
times he rode the bus did an incident occur.
Heide Bruckner, who started the
geography and development master’s program in August, was sent
to Honduras in July 2009 where she
worked on a composting project,
a home garden project for women
and a library project. She served
until last August, and while she was
there, the people were warm and
welcoming, she said.
“I think it’s sad that Peace Corps
in Honduras was temporarily shut
down, but I understand the reason,”
Bruckner said. “At the same time, I
never felt unsafe and I think most
volunteers don’t have extreme safety and security incidents.”
The danger to travel through
major cities, and the country’s high
homicide rate, were all likely factors
in the decision to pull out of Honduras, Bruckner added.
There was no specific incident
that spurred the Peace Corps to
suspend operations in Honduras,

Joe Burbank / Orlando Sentinel / MCt

Glitter falls on Republican presidential candidate Rick
Santorum after protesters threw the glitter at the stage and
shouted during a town hall meeting in Lady Lake, Fla., on Jan.
23. Security tackled the demonstrators and dragged them out
of the venue at the Tea Party-hosted event.

presidential candidates Tim Pawlenty (a former Minnesota governor) and Michele Bachmann (a U.S. representative from Minnesota); U.S. Rep Erik Paulsen, R-Minn.;
Republican political consultant Karl Rove; and members
of Minnesota for Marriage, a group opposed to same-sex
marriage.
But glitter bombing is not strictly a tactic used against
Republicans. Little-known presidential candidate Randall
Terry, an anti-abortion advocate running as a Democrat,
was glittered at a candidates forum in New Hampshire in
December … by fellow fringe Democratic candidate Vermin Supreme, a performance artist.

Same-sex marriage foes
ponder next legal move
Mcclatchy tribune

SAN FRANCISCO — Proposition
8 backers, who have longed to get to
the nation’s highest court, debated
Wednesday whether to go there immediately or delay by seeking another
review of a federal appeals court ruling that overturned California’s 2008
ban on same-sex marriage.
ProtectMarriage, the Christian
conservative sponsor of Proposition
8, is expected to announce next week
whether to ask a larger panel of the
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider Tuesday’s ruling, a decision
that could postpone U.S. Supreme
Court review for months.
In the meantime, gay rights lawyers
said they would fight to end the legal
hold, or stay, on Tuesday’s decision
when it expires in about three weeks.
Legal scholars said the challengers
faced a high hurdle, and the hold was
likely to remain until appeals were exhausted, which could take more than
year.
Andy Pugno, general counsel for

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ProtectMarriage, observed that a
judge on the 9th Circuit might independently call for fellow jurists to
vote on whether to review the ruling.
Whether such a vote would gain majority support remained doubtful, law
professors said.
Democratic appointees outnumber Republican appointees on the 9th
Circuit, University of California, Irvine
Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky
observed. “I have no doubt that there
is a core group of conservatives that
will want to go” for reconsideration,
he said. “But I can’t imagine they will
have the votes.”
Chemerinsky said he asked his law
students Wednesday whether they
would recommend ProtectMarriage
seek a rehearing in the 9th Circuit or
go to the Supreme Court. “They split,”
he said.
University of California, Davis constitutional law professor Vikram Amar
said it made sense that ProtectMarriage would want 9th Circuit review to
get “two bites of the apple.”

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Chomsky recalled a time when
a professor who he had worked
with at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology was once asked
by his students on the first day of
class what material was going to
be covered. The professor said,
“It doesn’t matter what we cover,
it matters what we discover. If you
discover that everything that I’m
teaching is wrong, that would be
good.”
For the rest of the lecture,
Chomsky focused on the relationship between people in power and
the education system.
“The great charter that calls for
preservation of the commons has
been forgotten. Failure to attend
to the commons is a serious problem,” Chomsky said. “Extraterrestrials watching must think that
we’re all lunatics. Unless that is
restored, we’re in trouble.”
A related problem, he said, is
that fashionable consumptions
are becoming more important
than human values. People used
to hold strikes for dignity, but this
has been beaten back for generations.
“In fact, the Occupy movements

If a majority of active circuit judges
voted to rehear the case, a panel of 11
judges would be randomly drawn to
decide it. Their decision could then
be appealed to the Supreme Court.
Rehearing would permit the 9th
Circuit to reframe the legal case and
deliver a ruling that would affect marriage laws in other states, the outcome
preferred by ProtectMarriage’s supporters, Pugno said. Tuesday’s ruling was limited to circumstances in
California and would not affect other
states.
A ruling by a larger 9th Circuit
panel also “would raise the profile of
the case and increase the attention
the Supreme Court would give to it,”
Pugno said.
But he cautioned that the legal
team was still debating strategy. In
the past, ProtectMarriage lawyers
have said they wanted to get to the
Supreme Court as quickly as possible. “Everybody knows the Supreme
Court is almost certain to review this
case,” he said.

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problems with it (cocaine),”
John said. One time, he said he
blacked out after mixing the drug
with alcohol, but has not had any
serious problems otherwise.
Sometimes, John said he has to
take breaks from the drug because
it is not always readily available.
“It’s not like cigarettes where
you can buy it at a gas station,”
John said.
He doesn’t always feel the need
to go find it as soon as he can either, he said, because he doesn’t
feel dependent on cocaine. Individuals have only a 5 percent risk
of becoming dependent within the
first two years after initial use, according to a 2005 study in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology.
John will put this to the test after
graduation.
“Once I’m out of college,” John
said. “I’m done.”

that distinguishes each candidate,
she said.
“I think a lot of people think
Romney’s personality is a little
more attractive than Gingrich’s,”
she said. “He seems to articulate
himself better.”
Personalities aside, the GOP
candidates will have to prove their
commitment to creating jobs and
shrinking the federal government if
they want to appeal to Arizona voters, Bouton said.
“I’m looking for someone who I
honestly believe will fight for smaller government,” she said. “I would
like to see a decrease in the federal
hand reaching out.”

according to the Peace Corps
website, but after reviewing
safety data the program decided
a more in-depth assessment was
necessary.
Currently, there are 71 UA alumni
serving in other countries, according to Aaron Hoholik, the Peace
Corps recruiter for the UA and
Southern California.
Bruckner, who is a Peace Corps
Coverdell Fellow, said that the program provides her with a sense of
community and allows her to serve
Tucson. The fellowship offers financial assistance to returned Peace
Corps volunteers and is one of the
largest in the country. Her time volunteering with the Peace Corps has
had an impact on her perspective
and is something she believes more
people should get involved with,
she said.
“I think it (volunteering) made
me more hopeful about the types
of projects people are involved with
and the dedication communities
have towards working towards a
better future,” she said. “At the same
time, it also has made me more
skeptical about what the role of development intervention can be and
the bigger social inequalities of our
world.”

that have be appearing all over
have been reviving it (striking for
dignity),” Chomsky said.
Chomsky talked about Tucson
Unified School District’s decision
to get rid of its Mexican-American
studies program.
“It’s a particularly ugly part of
the whole attack on the enlightenment ideal on higher education,”
Chomsky said, adding it’s particularly dramatic that this happened
in Tucson, a place that could be
called “Occupy Mexico.”
Chomsky quoted Bertrand Russell, one of the founders of the
modern university system, and
said education is like a string in
which the student progresses in
his or her own way.
When Chomsky finished speaking, he spent some time answering
questions from the audience.
Garrett Swenson and Kendra
Hilty, retailing and consumer sciences seniors, said they had never
heard Chomsky speak about education before.
“His insight to tuition increasing was great. We both think that
everyone at the university should
have attended and been able to
hear what he had to say,” Hilty
said. “Knowledge is power, and
Noam Chomsky definitely understands that.”

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Candidates running for all positions in the upcoming ASUA elections met in the Union Kiva Room of
the Student Union Memorial Center
on Wednesday night to learn the basic rules of elections conduct.
Candidates are allowed to start
officially campaigning at 8 a.m. on
Thursday, and there will be special
events for them to do so on the UA
Mall on Feb. 15 and Feb. 16, as well
as on Feb. 22 and Feb. 23. The primary elections for all candidates
will be held a week later, from 8 a.m.
to 8 p.m. on Feb. 28 and 29. The results of the primaries will then be
announced in the Kiva room at 6
p.m. on March 1, followed by a senate forum meeting from 7 to 9 p.m.
Three days later on March 4, executive debates will be held for the
candidates running from 5 to 7 p.m.
in the Kiva room. All candidates
must stop campaigning on March
7, and general elections will be held
from March 6 until March 8, when
results will be announced.
Elections Commissioner Mikindra Morin set some ground rules
for the candidates at the meeting as
well, which are outlined in the Associated Students of the University

of Arizona’s elections code. Candidates are allowed no more than one
11x17-inch poster on each public
bulletin board or in each classroom.
In addition, senatorial candidates
are allowed to spend a limit of $400
on campaigning, which is $200
more than last year, according to
ASUA President James Allen. Allen
said that because of this, candidates
should be able to stay within their
spending limit without any problems. Presidential candidates are
not to exceed $600, and administrative and executive vice presidential
candidates are not to exceed $500.
All expense reports for candidates
are due on March 2, after the primaries, and on March 9, after the general elections.
New to the elections code this
year is the way penalties are administered to candidates by the
commissioner. Last year’s code
used an 11-strike system, in which
a candidate would be disqualified
on the 11th strike. This year, a candidate will be disqualified on the
third strike. Candidates will receive
warnings for violations to the elections code before getting a strike,
but according to Morin, two warnings equal one strike. A warning is
defined in the elections code as a
violation not correctable within a

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Amanda
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science education
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Shannon
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junior studying
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24-hour window of notification of
the specific violation.
Candidates said they were excited
to run for office.
“I’m absolutely excited to be
here and I really feel like it’s a big
step in my career as far as ASUA is
concerned,” said ASUA Sen. Kevin
Elliot, who is running for executive
vice president. “I feel like I’m prepared, ready to go and, again, real
eager to get it going.”
“I have not held an office before,
but I am very very excited about
this, it will be my first time running
for anything for ASUA,” said J.W.
Phillips, an accounting junior who is
also running for executive vice president. He said that because he has
been at the UA for a while, he thinks
he will be able to bring something to
the table that others might not.
Paige Sager, a marketing junior,
has also not held a position in ASUA,
but said she feels like she is the most
qualified out of her opponents for
the position of administrative vice
president.
“I feel like I am the most
experienced candidate of the three,”
Sager said. “I think other people
have experience in the office but
as far as programs and services go,
I think I definitely have the most
experience.”

Presidential hopefuls
on upcoming contest

“

I’m really excited for this election. I
think there are three great candidates
and I think that it’s going to be a really
exciting process.

Katy Murray
marketing junior

Chad Travis
business
economics junior

“
“

Leo Yamaguchi
senior studying
physiology and
nutritional
sciences

Nelly Rubio
mathematics
freshman

“I think that our professors
should be more invested
in our academics versus
their research. Many of the
professors on campus do
not put adequate time and
effort into our academics’
needs. Isn’t that what us
students are here for? (The
president) should hire
better professors overall.”

Kaeli
Modrzejewski
nutritional
sciences
freshman

with
‘‘I’mthegoingbasketball

“

“I have heard my professors complain about their
small physical classes. I
agree with them, I have
been to many classrooms
where the physical size of
the room is so small for the
amount of people in the
room.”

Gideon Pace
physics freshman

Curtis
Jorgensen
freshman
studying physics
and astronomy

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“There are not a lot of
student-funded activities that focus on student
government. If there are, I
have not found any clubs
nor seen any advertisement that clubs have put
up for student government
positions. I am a freshman
and one thing that I like to
see is more activities on the
UA Mall.”

“Welcome, we (the UA
community) are a diverse,
learned, very opinioned
group of people, so take
what we say as a grain of
salt.”

“I would tell the new university president to lower
tuition costs. I have a big
problem with the cost of tuition. It would be nice if she
could go up to Phoenix and
tell them (the legislature) to
lower tuition. If she cannot
lower tuition, then at least
bring more scholarships
into the university that
doesn’t fit one standard
type of student.”

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If you had the opportunity to tell the new president
just one thing about the UA, what would it be?

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I think it’s going to be one of the
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in recent history and it’s also going
to be one of the most competitive
elections. We have a lot of qualified
candidates this year on from president
down to senate and I think that’s going
to create a lot of campus involvement
and a lot of excitement.

tudents with a medical
marijuana card shouldn’t
bring their supply to campus.
Marijuana is an illegal drug
according to the federal government
and therefore it can’t, and shouldn’t,
be on campus.
Proposition 203, the Arizona
Medical Marijuana Act, made it legal
for people, in Arizona, with a doctor’s
permission, to possess and smoke
marijuana. However, the federal
government can withhold funding if
a school allows it.
Rep. Amanda Reeve, R-Phoenix,
to cover the state’s bases, sponsored
House Bill 2349, which bans the
possession and usage of medical
marijuana at any educational
institution.
The House Education Committee
passed the bill last week.
“Educational institution means
any public or private university,
college, community college,
postsecondary educational
institution, high school, junior high
school, middle school, common
school or preschool in this state,”
according to the bill. In other
words, the bill will cover all schools
that receive federal aid, contracts,
grants or loans through the DrugFree Workplace and the Drug-Free
Schools and Communities acts.
Reeve said she wants to clarify
what Prop. 203 calls “public places,”
­— which unintentionally includes
schools — so the state won’t lose any
federal funding.
One of the acts specifically
mandates that, “Students in general
and recipients of Pell Grant are
required to comply.” And who gets
Pell Grants? Why, college students,
of course.
After marijuana was legalized
for medical use the Arizona Board
of Regents restated its drug ban
because the regents knew schools
must comply with the drug-free acts.
Arizona is not the first state to have
conflicting marijuana laws.
University of Colorado at Boulder
requires all its first-year freshmen to
live on campus. But, according to the
Denver Post, after a potential lawsuit,
university officials allowed a student
to live off campus because she had a
medical marijuana card.
No college is willing to risk
losing federal funding, and as long
as Arizona’s regents continue to
comply with drug policies, the UA
can keep its funding. Reeve is merely
offering further protection to schools
by making the regents’ decision a
statewide law.
As it’s written, Proposition 203 is
specific when it comes to hospitals,
hospices, and any healthcare
institution, but the proposition is too
vague when it comes to schools. The
state needs to have a uniform set of
laws and regulations to ensure that
colleges and universities comply
with federal mandates.
— Cheryl Gamachi is a prejournalism freshman.
She can be reached at
letters@wildcat.arizona.edu or on
Twitter via
@WildcatOpinions.

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Pardoning DUI offenders
offensive to justice system
I

t is human tendency to make
mistakes and redeem them
with an often-undeserved
second chance, and any
opportunity for redemption
should never be taken for
granted. Whether in a romantic
relationship, awaiting eviction
from a residence hall or dealing
with a minor violation of the
law, second chances are both
given and received frequently.
However, there comes a time
when a first offense should never
be pardoned.
Driving under the influence
should have no avenue for getting
a second chances. Every person
convicted of this crime should
receive the same punishment.
Former Mississippi Gov. Haley
Barbour granted more than 200
DUI pardons before leaving office
last month. Of those, 10 were given
to current inmates, four of whom
were serving life sentences for

killed Mississippi high school senior the harsh reality of a court trial, a
$2,500 fine, three months of alcohol
Charity Smith.
anonymous classes and a criminal
The injustice of the Bostick
record.
pardon is disgusting. A grown man
“I could have killed someone,” he
was given back the privilege of the
Caroline
said. “I never will drink and drive
open road when, after four major
Nachazel
again and I don’t let (other) people.”
speed bumps, it should have been
Arizona
taken away
Daily Wildcat
recognizes
forever.
drinking and
If one DUI
murder, according to the Chicago
Consequences should
driving as a
is not enough
Tribune. The Mississippi Supreme
be concrete, permanent
violent crime. An
to make a
Court will hold a hearing today to
and universal for DUI
underage drunken
driver separate
discuss the futures of the formerly
driver will face
stoplights from
offenders.
pardoned DUI felons after an
a misdemeanor
shot glasses,
18-year-old woman was killed by a
criminal
then no one
fourth-time offender.
conviction and
with multiple
Before killing a barely legal
DUI charges should ever receive a real justice is served. Mandatory
teenager in an October highway
ignition interlock devices are
pardon.
crash, Harry Bostick was
installed in cars to reduce repeat
A UA sophomore, whose name
convicted of three DUI charges.
offenses.
has been omitted by request, woke
He applied for the pardon of his
Bostick’s pardon is an
up behind the wheel of his crashed
third charge while in an intense
drug-and-alcohol abuse treatment vehicle in an empty parking lot with embarrassment to Smith and other
victims. His mistake resulted in the
program — a consequence from a a gash in his forehead the morning
most heartbreaking way: the death
after his senior prom.
previous DUI.
of an innocent bystander.
“There was a woman yelling
Barbour was convinced that
Consequences should be
‘Everything is going to be OK,’” he
Bostick had made a lifestyle
concrete, permanent and universal
said. “I remember a police officer
change for the better due to his
for DUI offenders.
overcoming recent traumatic events. coming up to me, breathalizing me,
Nevertheless, her decision to pardon then I was arrested and thrown into
— Caroline Nachazel is a
the back of a cop car. It was all very
Bostick’s most recent offense was a
junior studying journalism and
confusing and very fast.”
fatal one.
communication. She can be reached
Instead of leaving the drama
Just one week after the Mississippi
at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu or on
of high school behind like his
Parole Board granted Bostick the
Twitter via @WildcatOpinions.
graduating classmates, he faced
full pardon, he drove drunk and

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Turnitin.com levels application field

T

his year, more universities
are cracking down by using
Turnitin.com’s database to
find applicants trying to slide their
way into college with a plagiarized
personal essay. Turnitin is a great
tool for admissions departments
to use to sort students who are
working to get into the college
from those who are cheating.
Students deserve to go up against
actual competition in the college
admissions process.
The dreadful essay writing
continues with the college
application process. However, come
to think of it, it’s really not that big of
a deal if we’re writing and working
independently. The only time

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admissions essays, not only to
various universities, but also to
the Eller School of Business or to
the UA’s College of Nursing, they
shouldn’t be turned down because
Ashley T.
another applicant bought a better
Powell
essay.
Students should earn their spots.
Daily Wildcat
Applicants who rely on tools like
free essay examples or purchase
students should worry about writing
work should be caught and
an essay is if they stole the work from
rejected.
someone else.
Plagiarism tells a lot about
Students hate submitting
a student’s character. The
English essays to Turnitin because
Psychological Record, a quarterly
it’s just one extra step in what
journal produced by Southern
should be an easy process, but
Illinois University, published
it’s for a good reason. Turnitin is
a survey that said 36 percent
a database that allows professors
of undergraduates admit to
to see if and how much of a paper
plagiarizing written material. The
is plagiarized. The teacher can
Los Angeles Times reported that
then decide if it is coincidental or
somewhere between 3 percent and
if a significant portion was copied
20 percent of college applicants
from someone else.
plagiarize.
While colleges are mainly using
More than 100 colleges are
Turnitin for graduate divisions,
now using Turnitin to catch these
they should be using it for all
students. Stanford will be one of
divisions. If potential students
them, starting with its freshman
sit down to outline and write an

applicants this year.
Some universities are skeptical
about this new process in case of
false positives when students use
cliches or overused sayings in their
essays, reported the Los Angeles
Times, but those are all noticeable
right away. The essays that seem
way too good to be true or include
whole paragraphs that sound
familiar should be checked through
Turnitin.
Colleges should have been using
a tool such as Turnitin all along, so
they can spot dishonest applicants.
The UA has various programs
that use Turnitin for assignments,
but the admissions office and
admission directors in all schools
and departments at the UA should
also start using Turnitin to benefit
applicants who have truly earned
their spot.
— Ashley T. Powell is a journalism
sophomore. She can be reached at
letters@wildcat.arizona.edu or on
Twitter via @WildcatOpinions.

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Thursday, February 9, 2012 •

5

Police Beat
By Elliot P. Hopper
Daily Wildcat

Left in the dust

University of Arizona Police Department officers responded
to a male student at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, who said that his
dirt bike had been stolen. The student first called his friends to
see if this was a prank, but none of his friends said they took his
bike. He called his fiancee and asked her if she had moved the
bike because she had the only other key, but she also said no.
The student said that the bike was light enough that two men
could easily lift it into a truck. The bike was a black Kawasaki
KLX 2500 in fair condition, with a green gas tank. The bike’s
owner appraised it to be worth more than $4,500.

To the window

UAPD officers responded to a call that a UA employee made
at 6:22 a.m. on Monday. The employee was taking out the
Main Gate Parking Garage’s trash when he noticed a damaged
Jeep Cherokee. The employee noticed that the window of the
driver’s side had been smashed by a large rock. Officers came
to the scene and searched the surrounding areas for suspects,
but did not find any. They evaluated the vehicle and noticed
that there was nothing stolen from the car. The ignition had not
been damaged either. There was no other damage to the vehicle.
Officers suspected that the rock was thrown by a student or
people passing by with the sole intention of breaking a window.
There is no further information at this time.

Missing money

A student withdrew $300 dollars from Wells Fargo and went
to the UA Mall to play volleyball with friends on Monday. She
placed her belongings and purse on a bench near the Mall.
Around 4:15 p.m., she told her friends she was going to catch
the bus. She gathered her belongings and rode the bus home.
When she got home and went to take the $300 from her wallet
to put it in a safe place, she saw that her wallet was missing.
She immediately called UAPD and Wells Fargo to report a theft
and to put a hold on her credit cards. The student checked her
online statement and noticed someone had already used the
Wells Fargo card at Fry’s to get gas and spent $45. A Wells Fargo
representative said the company will reimburse her the $45, and
UAPD is currently in the process of gathering tapes from Fry’s
gas pump on First Avenue.

Damaged door

UAPD officers reported to the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity at
5:10 p.m. on Monday after receiving a report about damage
done to the house door. The officers responded and talked
to members of the fraternity. The members said that they
thought a fellow fraternity member caused the damage.
The vice president of the fraternity said he saw one of the
members slamming into the door once or twice, but was not
paying enough attention and did not realize the extent of the
damage. The fraternity is still unsure if they are going to press
charges on the alleged suspect. UAPD officers are following
the investigations with more detail. Nothing was stolen from
the fraternity house.

Police Beat is compiled from official University of Arizona Police Department reports. A
complete list of UAPD activity can be found at www.uapd.arizona.edu.

Campus Events

Science, Technology & Art: A SISTA Exhibition
The School of Information: Science, Technology
& Arts (SISTA) is pleased to announce our ﬁrst
exhibition to be held in the University of Arizona
Student Union Gallery, running from January 17th
to February 9th. Admission is free and open to
the public. This juried exhibition includes work
by UA faculty, staff, and students who are blurring
the lines between art, research, technology, and
science. Information about SISTA can be found
at http://sista.arizona.edu or by e-mailing info@
sista.arizona.edu. Union Gallery Hours: Monday Wednesday and Friday: 12pm - 6pm, Thursdays:
12pm - 8pm
Ansel Adams: The View from Here Perhaps no
photographer’s work has enjoyed such popularity
as Ansel Adams’s awe-inspiring views of the
natural world. His early trips to the Yosemite
wilderness in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s
informed the stylistic approach that made him
famous. These treks included not only the physical
activities of hiking, camping, and mountain
climbing, but also social, intellectual, cultural,
and spiritual elements. With forty photographs
and supporting documents from the Ansel
Adams Archive, Ansel Adams: The View from
Here explores the relationship between Adams’s
magical photographs of the American landscape
- both its panoramic vistas and its intimate details
- and how he came to understand the importance
of his natural environment. Monday – Friday,
9am – 5pm, Saturday &a Sunday, 1pm – 4pm
through March 4th at The Center for Creative
Photography: 1030 North Olive Road.

Wildcat Calendar
Campus Events

“Mapping Arizona: From Mexican
Territory to U.S. State” (exhibit) This is
new exhibit on display in the UA Main Library
from Jan. 6 – March 28, 2012, details the
path Arizona took to become a state – ﬁrst
as part of the Territory of New Mexico, then
as the Territory of Arizona, ﬁnally attaining
statehood in 1912. In addition to an array
of historical maps, “Mapping Arizona” also
includes books and unique documents
selected from Special Collections extensive
holdings. These additional materials offer
insight into the stories that accompany the
lines, boundaries, and borders within the
maps. UA Main Library, 1510 E. University
Blvd.
Steward Observatory Mirror Lab Tours
A behind-the-scenes look on Tuesdays
and Fridays at the cutting-edge optical
technology involved in making giant
telescope mirrors at Steward Observatory
Mirror Lab, University of Arizona. Tours are
conducted at 1 p.m and 3 p.m. Monday
through Friday. Advance reservations
are required and can be made by calling
520-626-8792. Admission: $15 adults, $8
students. 933 N. Cherry Ave., N208

Julius Ceasar-Themed Flash Mob Be on
the lookout for an assassination near the UA
BookStores at the Student Union Memorial
Center, but have no fear – it’s simply a
ﬂash-mob-style performance to advertise
an upcoming production of “Julius Caesar”
that begins Feb. 26 and runs through March
25 at the Marroney Theatre. Cameras
welcome. Thursday, February 9th, 2012.
1:30 p.m. - 2 p.m. Student Union Memorial
Center outside of UA BookStores.
Free Hatha Yoga Class As part of the
Tucson Holistic Healing Initiative for Nurses,
the College of Nursing is hosting free
Hatha Yoga classes, taught by Sandi Fox,
throughout the month of February. Classes
are limited to 30 participants on a ﬁrst-come,
ﬁrst-served basis. College of Nursing,
Room: 117. Thursday, February 9, 2012
from 5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.

Scott Huckabay - Guitar Alchemist Guitar
virtuoso makes rare Tucson appearance! He is an
amazing performer, self-taught while recovering
from a near-fatal motorcycle accident in Arizona.
He has performed with several big names such
as Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Crosby, Stills &
Nash around the world. In addition he has played
in diverse venues such as the Great Pyramids of
Egypt. His music is one-of-a-kind and his audience
often gets caught up in his divine, passionate
performances. It was after a near-fatal motorcycle
accident that Huckabay discovered the guitar,
or it discovered him. February 9th 8-10m, Solar
Culture, 31 East Toole. (520) 884-0874
58th Annual Tucson Gem and Mineral Shows
For two weeks every winter, the world meets in
Tucson as it becomes a bustling, international
marketplace of buyers and sellers at the Tucson
Gem, Mineral & Fossil Showcase. The “Gem
Show” is much more than a single event at
one location. Rather, there are thousands of
participants and attendees at more than 40 sites
around town. Dozens of shows take place at the
same time - in giant white tents, at hotels and
resorts and at exhibit halls. There’s something for
everyone at the many open-to-the-public shows
- from gold and diamonds to granite bookends
and glass beads, and from ﬁne specimens of
dinosaur fossils to opals dug from the Australian
Outback. View the following web page for speciﬁc
dates, times, and locations of the Tucson gem and
mineral shows:http://tucsongemandmineralshows.
net/2012-tucson-gem-show.htm. January 28th
through Febraury 12th, 2012.

To sponsor this calendar, or list an event, email calendar@dailywildcat.com or call 621.3425 Deadline 3pm 2 business days prior to publication

he Islamic Republic of Iran, perceived
by Westerners as the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s looniest
state next to North Korea, may have
finally pressed its luck too far. There is talk
in Israel, Iranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most implacable foe, that
the dramatic covert war theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve waged with
Iran will soon come out in the open. Military
strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities are
being seriously discussed. Israel fears that
once the facilities are moved underground
there will be no ordinance, barring nuclear
weapons, that can take them out. Israel
may have a point, but there are plenty of
other, stronger points that make this type of
intervention quite foolish.
Israel can ill afford the conflict it is
considering. The Israeli Defense Forces are
superior to Iranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s army, but in order to attack
the Iranian facilities, Israeli planes would
have to fly a great distance across unfriendly
skies. A war of this sort would likely force at
least some side taking, and given the history
of Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s neighbors, that prospect seems
to favor Iran. Even Saudi Arabia, a powerful
Sunni monarchy that is at odds with the
Shiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;a theocracy in Iran, may choose what it
perceives as the lesser of two evils if Israel flies
military missions in its airspace. In addition,
Iranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s close ties to both Hezbollah and Hamas
means that it essentially has an army, albeit a
guerilla one, already deployed in Israel should
it come to hostilities.
Iran itself is weak right now, but the type
of action Israel is discussing would actually
serve to make its enemy stronger. Sanctions
are squeezing the regime more than Iran
would probably care to admit. The Supreme
Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are not on good
terms, and their dispute divides the rest
of the leadership. Most importantly, Iran
and its people are not aligned. The regime
was able to quell dissent in 2009, but those
same grievances have not evaporated. Iranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
commitment to nuclear energy and the

countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s odd antics of late â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an attempted
attack on the Saudi embassy in the U.S. is
perhaps the strangest â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is actually a sign of the
regimeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weakness.
All that can change if Israel decides to go
through with its attacks. The kind of weakness
Iran is experiencing is best exploited through
diplomacy. There are claims that the ultrareligious regime is little more than a suicide
cult that refuses to listen to reason. But
Khanmenei, a former president and leader in
Iranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s war with Iraq, is a cagier operator than
that. He holds the real power in Iran and will
make a good deal for himself if forced to do so.
Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s planned strike would actually give him
and his regime far greater bargaining power.
Iranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s harsh governance would suddenly
become justified now that its great enemy was
attacking, and the people would likely line up
with their own country sooner than aid Israel.
For pragmatic reasons, diplomacy remains
the best policy in dealing with Iran. Further
diplomatic pressure stands a real chance of
forcing Khanmeneiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regime to cooperate.
But Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talk of striking them threatens
to undermine all that. Western powers,
especially the U.S., should rein in Israel at any
cost. Not only would the chaos be politically
horrific, but the Western economy canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
afford that sort of conflict in the Middle East.
Oil exports would naturally be endangered,
especially given Iranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent threats to close
the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway out of the
Persian Gulf through which a large amount
of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oil flows. It is in everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
interests to avoid using military violence
against Iran at the moment.
Let us hope Israel sees the reason in this
before doing something dangerously foolish.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Andrew J. Conlogue is a junior studying
philosophy, politics, economics and law. He can
be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu or on
Twitter via @WildcatOpinions.

MAILBAG
Along with at least 500 other Tucsonans, I was disappointed to be turned away from yesterdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
lecture delivered by Noam Chomsky. When I arrived about half an hour before the lecture was to
begin, the line already stretched from the North Ballroom, the very small venue where the lecture
was scheduled, along the entire second floor of the Student Union. Although I understand that the
organizers of this event probably wanted a full house for the sake of appearances, it seems as though
they would be interested in allowing the public to attend. Apparently they were surprised that a
few people might turn up to listen to the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most prominent public intellectual. This is just
another excellent example of the poor planning and gross mismanagement for which our university is
becoming justly famous.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ben Harper,
alumnus
In response to the Feb. 7 column â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fraternity hazing at colleges exemplifies bigger problemsâ&#x20AC;?:
Hi Lauren,
I just wanted to drop you a short note to tell you how well-written and well-done I thought your
article in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paper was. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fraternity hazing at colleges exemplifies bigger problemsâ&#x20AC;? was wellresearched and really sends the message to UA students that hazing is a national problem and can be
very damaging to studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success.
Thank you for writing this piece.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Johanne Ives,
assistant dean of students
In response to the Feb. 6 column â&#x20AC;&#x153;College men need to respect women for society to workâ&#x20AC;?:
I now regret sending my prior email, not because I have necessarily changed my opinion
regarding Mr. Davisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; articleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s consistency, structure, etc., but rather because I definitely had the
wrong idea of what an op-ed piece should be. Further, it is rather audacious of me to call the
article â&#x20AC;&#x153;awfulâ&#x20AC;? or claim that it requires an apology just because it is not as radical in its feminism
as I would prefer. While the article is a bit juvenile in its analysis, it is wrong of me to want it
removed or apologized for, because, all-in-all, it is still a more forward-thinking opinion than a
plurality of the opinions of men in general. Hopefully more men can come around to at least Mr.
Davisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; level of insight, if not far past it, but, regardless, I take back my more polemic, destructive
criticisms.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Morgan Shnier,

‘Cats look to strike first against Colorado
By Cameron Moon
Daily Wildcat

The Arizona women’s basketball
team will try to break free from a sixgame slide tonight when it faces Colorado in Boulder, Colo.
In the teams’ first meeting as Pac12 opponents, the Wildcats were unable to pull out a close victory, falling
56-54, thanks in part to 20 turnovers
and a poor shooting night from floor
general Shanita Arnold and leading
scorer Davellyn Whyte, who combined to score just 12 points and had
11 turnovers.
“It’s always difficult when you lose
games, but I think the way our team
responded, especially over this last
weekend shows that we still have
fight in us,” head coach Niya Butts
said. “We’re just looking forward to

another opportunity on the court on
Thursday, one game at a time.”
Tonight’s game marks the first time
the Wildcats will travel to Colorado
since its addition to the conference,
and despite the previous loss still
fresh in their minds, Butts says it will
not affect them.
“Anytime you get into conference
play, anything can happen,” Butts said.
“If you look at what’s going on in the
conference right now, and what can be
a positive weekend for us this upcoming weekend, two wins and we’re right
back in the middle of the pack.”
If Arizona (13-10, 2-9 Pac-12) is to
pull out of the streak that has dragged
ir to the bottom of the conference, it
will need leadership from its most important player. Whyte has struggled
as of late, even posting a goose egg in
the scoring column against Stanford

on Saturday, with just one rebound
to go along with four turnovers in a
season-low 14 minutes of play.
“We have been losing a lot lately,
but we just know that these games
count,” guard Candice Warthen
said. “We just try to move ahead
and stay positive. It’s going to be
hard, being that it’s on the road, but
we just stay positive and have confidence in ourselves.”
If Arizona can sweep the competition this week, the team would be
right back in the thick of things. But
before anyone can talk about that,
the Wildcats have to take down Colorado on the road.
“Everyone is beating up on everyone,” Butts said. “It’s time for us to
Gordon Bates / Daily Wildcat
hit first, and get back into the mix,
and I think that’s very doable. One Arizona guard Davellyn Whyte looks to pass against Stanford on Saturday. Arizona
has lost its last six games, thanks in part to the struggles of the Wildcat guards.
game at a time.”

Last time out
Key Moment: Fogg’s missed FT
With Arizona trailing 64-63, Kyle
Fogg stepped to the line with 1:01
left on the clock and a chance to
give the Wildcats the lead. Fogg
missed the front end of the 1-and1, however, leaving two points on
the board that theoretically would
have won the Wildcats the game

Key Player: Carlon Brown
The senior guard and Utah
transfer scored 19 points – 12
in the second half – and drilled
what proved to be the game
winner as he knocked down a
triple with 1:19 remaining.

Key Stat: 3-for-20
The Wildcats live and die by the
3-pointer, so it’s no coincidence
that a 3-for-20 clip from distance
resulted in a loss. Fogg and Solomon Hill hit UA’s only 3-pointers as Nick Johnson, Jordin
Mayes, Brendon Lavender and
Kevin Parrom shot a combined
0-for-11 from three.

Quotable

Colin Darland / Daily Wildcat

Arizona guard Kyle Fogg shoots against Colorado on Jan. 21 in Boulder, Colo. Fogg has been the catalyst for an Arizona
team that has seen its chances in the Pac-12 increase thanks to a sweep in the Bay Area last weekend.

“One of the things that I don’t
really like to say is that we just
couldn’t make a shot because
it almost sounds like a cop-out
as a coach, but that is the case.
I would say we had six to eight
that I would consider the best
shot in the gym for us. Wide
open. Late in the game, individual players have to make free
throws and individual players to
win the game, and tonight we
were 0-for.” — Sean Miller

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Similarities between Arizona,
Colorado more than a coincidence
By Mike Scmitz
Daily Wildcat

Arizona and Colorado are tied for the Pac-12 Conference lead in defensive field goal percentage. The
Buffs and Wildcats also sit tied for second and third,
respectively, in the conference standings, and only
one point separated the two teams last time they
collided in Boulder, Colo., on Jan. 21.
But the likeness between the two schools at this
point in the season is much more than a coincidence, and that should be evident when they meet
tonight at 7 p.m. in McKale Center.

Sean Miller and CU head coach Tad Boyle have
a longstanding relationship developed through the
coaching circuit, and that friendship is evident in
their similar philosophies and styles of play.
“We tend to, in many ways, kind of mirror each
other,” Miller said of Arizona and Colorado.
The most striking similarity lies in how both
teams defend, evidenced by the fact that they
each allow opponents to shoot only 39.8 percent from the field. The Wildcats and Buffaloes
also rank first and second in the conference, respectively, in defensive 3-point percentage.
Those numbers are a direct result of the defensive
principles predicated on disciplined pressure and
pinpoint positioning that Miller and Boyle have

Similarities, 12

Nick Johnson

Free throws may sink hoops squad
By Nicole Dimtsios
Daily Wildcat
Much has been made about
the Arizona Wildcats basketball
team’s free-throw shooting woes
— and for good reason.
The most recent example of Arizona’s poor free throw shooting
was last weekend when Arizona
attempted 54 combined shots
from the foul line against California and Stanford and made only
30 of them — a dismal 55.6 percent from the charity stripe.
This season there have even

been instances where the Wildcats have shot a higher percentage
from the 3-point line than they did
from the free throw line.
“It’s … I don’t know,” freshman Nick Johnson said about the
team’s free-throws struggles. “I
think coach said something like
we could have scored 90 points
against Cal or 95 — something like
that — if we would have made our
free throws.”
Instead, just two points decided
the California game, and it came
down to the final possessions,
with Arizona (16-8, 7-4 Pac-12)

squeaking out a 78-74 victory.
The free throw shooting got so
bad against Stanford that junior
Kevin Parrom, who did not make
the trip to the Northern California
schools because of a foot injury,
even tweeted “we need to lock up
and make free throws.”
But there have been other
games where free throws would
have changed the outcome of the
game. The last time the Wildcats
took on tonight’s opponent, the
Colorado Buffaloes (16-7, 8-3),
two crucial late misses were the
difference. With less than three

minutes left to play in the game,
both veterans Solomon Hill and
Kyle Fogg missed shots that would
have given the Wildcats the lead.
“It’s the biggest mismatch in
Thursday’s game,” Arizona head
coach Sean Miller said. “We’re
shooting a lot of free throws per
game, so as we get to the line
more, it’s even more of a problem
… When you get there a lot it decimates you on offense.”
Although important in their
own right, free throws will

When goalkeeper David Herman
went down with a concussion in early
January, the No. 21 Arizona hockey
team needed someone to fill his place.
The Wildcats found their man in sophomore Steven Sisler.
“I feel like Sisler answered the bell
fantastically,” defender Shane Gleason
said. “We all feel bad we haven’t gotten
him some more wins in the past couple
weeks. He definitely gives us a chance
to win, and that’s all you can ask from a
goalie.”
Sisler has done more than enough
in Herman’s place — earning himself
the majority of game time even though
Herman has returned from injury.
Herman has been cleared to play
since mid-January, but his slow return
back to his pre-injury form has given
Sisler the opportunity to take over the
starting spot.
“Sisler has simply been phenomenal
this season,” Herman said. “He’s been a
rock in net and everything we needed
him to be and more.”
When Herman suffered a concussion last season, Sisler filled in as a
freshman, gaining valuable experience.
With his time this season, he’s expanded on his good play and made enough
of a statement to be the regular starter in
any situation.
“I’ve been doing what I can to give
my team a chance to win the games,”
Sisler said.
The team has been unable to translate the strong goaltending into victories
though, going just 3-8 since Herman’s
injury. However, all but two of the losses
have been by only a single goal.
In the Wildcats’ lone blowout defeat, a 10-3 loss to No. 4 ASU, Sisler
gave up three goals in the first period
and was pulled for Herman to play in
the second.
But the Sun Devils showed that Sisler
wasn’t the main issue for the Wildcats,
as Herman gave up five more in the second period and Sisler returned to finish
the game.
“It’s a whole team effort, and we’ve
all been struggling as a team,” assistant
captain Geordy Weed said. “Sisler has
definitely done a great job keeping us in
the game these past games.”
Last weekend against No. 8 Minot
State, Sisler gave up only two goals in
four periods of play. He was in net for
the 3-1 loss on Saturday, but the final
goal was on an empty net. He also came
in for relief in the third period Friday
with the team down 6-2, and shut down
the Beavers in the final period. His effort
wasn’t enough though, and the Wildcats fell 6-5.
Head coach Sean Hogan said he was
impressed with how his sophomore
goalkeeper played this past weekend,
despite the one soft goal he gave up at
the end of the second period Saturday.
With only four games left in the season and the Wildcats in the midst of a
lengthy losing streak, solid play in net is
a good first step toward turning things
around. And thanks to the crucial experience that Sisler has gotten lately, he
has been able to bring his game in net
up to another level, Weed said.
“(Sisler) has been given that time
this year, and you can definitely see it
in his play,” Weed said. “He’s been paying awesome, standing on his head for
us in games.”

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Tempe, Ariz. Fowler, along with third baseman Brigette Del Ponte, was named to the National Player of the Year Watch List on Wednesday.

Softball kicks off season
with Tempe tournament
By Cameron Moon
DAILY WILDCAT

After a long, painful summer following
a rare loss in the Super Regional round of
the NCAA playoffs, the Arizona softball
team will travel to Tempe today to play
McNeese State in the Kajikawa Classic.
While teams like McNeese State and
Cal State Northridge don’t pose a major
threat to the Wildcats’ chance of winning
the tournament, the No. 15 Texas A&M
Aggies and No. 21 Nebraska Cornhuskers
will pose a tough challenge to the experienced Arizona team.
“It’s not so much a team competition,
we just need to not battle ourselves, not
put too much pressure on ourselves,” AllAmerican pitcher Kenzie Fowler said. “It’s
the beginning of the weekend, so a lot can
happen. It’s just a good start to get the
juices going and hit the ball.”
In the Nebraska game on Friday,
Fowler will be facing a familiar opponent: her little sister. When the Fowlers
face off, Kenzie Fowler as pitcher and
Mattie Fowler at third base, they won’t
be taking it easy on each other, Kenzie
Fowler said.
“She’s so competitive, I think, in all aspects, because she’s the younger sibling.
She’s always had that fighting personality,” Kenzie Fowler said. “I know when the
game starts, she’ll turn it on.”
For the rest of the team, the first games
of the season, while perhaps lacking sentimental value, will bring excitement and
passion back to a hungry team, head coach
Mike Candrea said.
“This team has been pretty focused
since this summer,” Candrea said. “We’ve
got a lot of kids that have worked very hard

to make this a special year, and now the
time is around the corner. The excitement
is building and now it’s just time to go out
and play the game.”
Besides the team’s intangibles, Candrea said he is enthusiastic about the lineup he assembled. Arizona has experience
like Kenzie Fowler, leadership from four
seniors that have played in the College
World Series before, and a fresh energy
and willingness to give everything from
his four freshmen, which will all contribute this season.
“For the first time in a long time, this
lineup is very deep,” Candrea said. “One
through nine can hurt you. This team has
that air of confidence from different personalities, different complexions that I think is
much more favorable for going to battle.”

Arizona has two named
to National Player of
the Year Watchlist

The Amateur Softball Association of
America and USA Softball released its annual Player of the Year Watch List last week,
and the Wildcats have a pair of juniors mentioned.
Second-team All-American third baseman Brigette Del Ponte and two-time firstteam All-American pitcher Kenzie Fowler
were named to the list on Wednesday. Preseason honors are nothing new to Fowler,
who has been a finalist for the award since
stepping on campus two years ago.
“It’s definitely an honor, but nothing I
want to think about too much,” Fowler said.
“It just reminds me that I need to work hard.
It’s an honor because those are great players
— players I’ll be playing against.”

Fowler, a Tucson native, is a power pitcher with a 1.67 ERA and 61-18 record after
two seasons. She has also worked steadily
since missing time from injuries in each of
her first two years to place seventh on Arizona’s all-time strikeout list with 614, and
ninth on the all time career wins list with 64.
“I think I’ve been through it all, but you
never know what’s going to happen,” she
said. “The experiences I’ve been through
will make me successful in the long run. It
made me stronger mentally.”
Del Ponte, albeit a team leader and very
productive player both offensively and defensively, has never been considered for
this award, but said she’s ready to prove why
she deserves recognition.
“It makes me nervous, but it also makes
me want to work that much harder because
I want to prove to everyone that I can do that
and I can be that person,” Del Ponte said.
Del Ponte, a career .724 slugger, set freshman records for RBIs and home runs and
set the Arizona doubles record a year ago.
However, she says those are abilities she
stepped on campus with. Her growth as a
player is attributed to the coaching of eighttime NCAA champion head coach Mike
Candrea.
“Coming here, I knew the fundamentals,” Del Ponte said. “He taught me the
mental side, how to prepare.”
Candrea often preaches leadership
from seniors, but the leadership he gets
from these two players will take his team
a long way, he says.
“You have to almost develop leaders in
this day and age,” Candrea said. “Both of
them are very competitive, like to play the
game, and play the game hard. Those two
are very capable of performing and being
leaders for our team.”

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Bracketologist Joe Lunardi is the most popular man in Bristol, Conn., and college basketball fans
across the country wait on pins and needles to see who’s on the bubble or the first four in.
So with seven games and a Pac-12 Tournament remaining on the schedule, where does Arizona
stand in the field of 68?
Here’s a look at the conference’s top four teams and what each team has to do to get on the selection committee’s good side
and land in the big dance:
Washington:

California:

Colorado:

Barring a meltdown, the Huskies should be
among the conference’s top two seeds. With
Tony Wroten, Terrence Ross and CJ Wilcox
they’re top to bottom the most talented team
in the conference, having won eight of their
last nine games. The only thing that could
keep UW out of the tournament would be its
poor non-conference performance — losses
to Saint Louis, Nevada and South Dakota
State — and less than impressive list of wins
in conference. But the Huskies have one of the
most favorable schedules in the conference
with Oregon, Oregon State, ASU, Arizona,
Washington State, USC and UCLA remaining,
making them more or less a lock to make the
tournament.
RPI: 75
Good wins: 69-67 at Arizona
Bad losses: 77-64 at Saint Louis, 76-73 at Nevada and 92-73 vs. South Dakota State
Productive losses: 79-77 vs. No. 11 Marquette
and 86-80 vs. No. 5 Duke
Lunardi’s current prediction: 11-seed
DW final seed prediction: 10-seed

While Washington sits atop the conference
and may very well win the regular season title,
Cal has the best resume. Its RPI is head and
shoulders above the rest of the Pac-12, having faced Missouri, San Diego State and UNLV
in non-conference play. The Golden Bears are
well coached, experienced, and feature three
of the better guards in the conference in Allen
Crabbe, Jorge Gutierrez and Justin Cobbs.
Cal does have a few ugly losses in conference, but it should take care of its remaining
seven games to earn the highest seed out of
the conference. Even if Cal falters a bit down
the stretch, it’s still virtually a lock for the big
dance thanks to its RPI.
RPI: 47
Good wins: 57-50 vs. Colorado, 69-66 at Washington and 77-60 at Oregon
Bad losses: 92-85 at Oregon State, 77-75 at
Washington State, 92-53 vs. No. 21 Missouri
and 85-68 at No. 23 UNLV
Productive losses: 64-63 at San Diego State
Lunardi’s current prediction: 10-seed
DW final seed prediction: 8-seed

CU is as much on the bubble as any team
in the country. After being snubbed a season
ago, the Buffs virtually control their own destiny
as they play Arizona on Thursday and get Cal,
which they’re tied with for second, at home in
late February. Colorado has all the tools to sneak
into the tournament, but its remaining schedule
is brutal. Arizona could avenge its late-January
loss tonight in McKale Center, which would push
the Buffs further out of the picture. If Arizona
gets the win, CU falls to Cal and splits the Oregon schools on the road, the Buffaloes will have
to win the Pac-12 Tournament to make the field
of 68. With that said, their chances are the worst
among the conference’s top four teams.
RPI: 73
Good wins: 87-69 vs. Washington, 64-63 vs. Arizona and 82-60 vs. Oregon State
Bad losses: 67-58 vs. Wichita State, 65-54 at Colorado State and 65-64 at Wyoming
Productive wins: 78-71 vs. Maryland
Lunardi’s current prediction: Next Four Out
DW final seed prediction: National Invitational
Tournament

Arizona:
If the Wildcats can defeat Colorado tonight
and take care of Utah, Wazzu, USC, UCLA and
ASU, they can afford a road loss to UW and
still make the tournament. With that likely scenario in place, Arizona should go dancing in
March. The Wildcats are the best defensive
team in the conference and that will continue
to carry them throughout the remainder of
the season. Sean Miller knows the right time
for his teams to peak, and coming off a road
sweep of the Bay Area schools, that time appears to be now. Arizona features the secondbest RPI in the conference and will most likely
be the third and final Pac-12 team to make the
NCAA Tournament.
RPI: 64
Good wins: 83-76 at New Mexico State, 78-74 at
Cal and 81-72 at St. John’s
Bad losses: 59-57 vs. Oregon, 65-58 at UCLA,
and 61-57 vs. San Diego State
Productive losses: 78-72 at Florida, 67-57 vs.
Mississippi State and 71-60 at Gonzaga
Lunardi’s current prediction: 12-seed/last four in
DW final seed prediction: 12-seed

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It’s a common practice for new
members of a team to pick up bats
and helmets carelessly littered
around the field in order to earn
their place on the squad through a
little dirty work.
But the last few days at the Arizona baseball practice, a strange sight
can be seen — preseason All-American Alex Mejia is the one picking up
the equipment.
“I want to be a great teammate
to these guys,” Mejia said. “Any way
I can help, (any) which way I can
help. I want to be there for them.”
Mejia sprained his wrist diving for
a ball during practice last Thursday,
so he’s been unable to participate
in any of the drills the last few days.
Mejia said the itch to get back on the
field has been killing him.
“I just try to find something to do
whether it’s picking up trash, picking up balls, do something,” Mejia
said. “That way I feel like I’m con-

tributing to the team.”
Head coach Andy Lopez said Mejia
will be 100 percent by opening night,
but if the Wildcats — ranked No. 20
in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll
— want to have the success they’re
predicted to this season, they’ll need
the 6-foot-1, 200-pound junior every
game they can.
Last season, Mejia started all 60
games at shortstop and batted .335,
ranking him second among returning players. But Lopez said Mejia
won’t pass the eye test — his intangibles are what separate him from
the rest of the pack.
“If you watch Mejia every day,
he’s the real deal,” Lopez said. “His
makeup, his intangibles, and he’s a
very good baseball player too.”
And while the honor of being
named a second-team preseason AllAmerican by the National Collegiate
Baseball Writers Association might
seem like a lot of hype to live up to,
Lopez said the team only needs
Mejia to do exactly what he has in
the past — be a strong defender who

delivers with clutch at-bats.
But Lopez said Mejia brings much
more to the table than just being a
good player — he’s a great team leader.
With all the talking Mejia does on
the field, he’ll have to contribute a
lot to live up to his expectations.
Lopez said that that in every series he’s managed, an opposing
coach has at least come up to him
once and said, “Man that Mejia guy,
does he ever shut up?”
“That’s what you want at the
shortstop position,” Lopez said. “It’s
right in the middle and, other than
the pitcher, I think it’s the most important position. And he’s does a
marvelous job with it.”
But with the season-opener just
eight days away, Mejia isn’t concentrating on his injured wrist — he just
wants to win.
“I don’t think I’m too worried
about that right now,” he said. “As
long as I do what I’m supposed to
do on the field that will help us win,
I pretty much think everything will
fall into place.”

instilled in their respective teams.
“I’ve known Sean for a while
now and I think he’s got a defensive philosophy that is very similar to ours,” Boyle said. “We feel
like we try to do the same thing,
philosophically. We don’t want
to break down and give the opponent easy baskets. The thing
about playing Arizona is that they
don’t break down defensively and
I think that’s half the battle of being a good defensive team.”
Then there are the personnel
similarities. Neither Arizona nor
Colorado has a major superstar,
and shooting guards Kyle Fogg
and Carlon Brown are doing their
part to fill that void.
Miller called Brown, a former
Utah transfer, “by far one of our
conference’s best players,” but
neither he nor Fogg would be
confused with a superstar.
Both Colorado and Arizona
each start two freshmen and two
seniors as well. Josiah Turner
and Nick Johnson came to college with far more hype than CU
freshmen Spencer Dinwiddie and
Askia Booker, but their production suggests otherwise.
“They have some freshmen that

Free Throws
from page 7

be especially important this
weekend for Arizona because the
limited number of players Miller
will use. With sophomore Jordin
Mayes out of the lineup against
Colorado and Utah, free points
will be essential to securing two
home wins.
The Wildcats are shooting 69
percent from the foul line compared to Colorado’s 71 percent.
And for Arizona, the free throw
misses have come at times where
the extra one or two points would
have made all the difference in
the game.
“If you just do the math and
stay with the same number of attempts and make it 72 percent
you’d see our points per game
and our margin of victory or close
loss turning into a win,” Miller
said. “We would really be in a
good place right now.”

maybe didn’t enter Colorado on a
McDonald’s All-American list but
they’re playing as well as some of
the best freshmen in the country,”
Miller said.
Overall both teams are fairly
undersized and rely on balanced
scoring, tough defense and team
rebounding. Although the differences between school colors
aren’t tough to distinguish, Arizona and Colorado’s play tonight
in McKale Center might be.
“We have a lot of similarities in
our style of play and our personnel because we’re more forward
and guard heavy than we are true
post players,” Miller said.
Despite their parallels, one
team has to come out on top on
Thursday in McKale Center and
emerge as the big brother of the
eerily similar squads.
“They’re a good team. We just
didn’t have some balls bounce
our way, but overall we were in
the game so we’re looking to get
a win this time,” Johnson said.
“Brown really had his way with
our defense and so did Dinwiddie, so I know me and Fogg personally want to see them again.
They had a great atmosphere up
at their place so hopefully we can
show them what the real atmosphere is like here.”

If Miller’s fantasy were true,
Arizona would have made about
18 more free throws, which is more
than the combined margin of loss for
all the Wildcats’ conference losses.
Miller also said the team has
been working to make sure Arizona’s free chances don’t go unclaimed. He has used practice
techniques such as stopping
practice to simulate free throw
situations.
“We try to take breaks in practice
when you’re breathing hard,” Miller
said. “You get the feeling of coming
on and off the line.”
Johnson, who will have an increased role with Mayes out of the
lineup, said the team has tried to get
back to the mental aspect of thinking
they can make free throws to put the
game away.
“I like to think I’m a good free throw
shooter,” said Johnson, who has the
fourth-highest free throw percentage
on the team. “As of late, haven’t been
so much but I’m looking to turn
that around.”

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Oro Valley, AZ 85704
520.888.8929

TUCSON

4246 N First Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85719
520.888.8929

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Psychology, Family Studies, Education, Public Health Majors
Make a difference in someone’s life and make a difference
in your own. UCPSA is now hiring college students in our
Habilitation Program. Work one on one with children and
young adults with disabilities.
Flexible schedule, part-time
hours up to $10.00 per hour

Apply Online: www.ucpsa.org or contact
520-795-3108 for more information.